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SUBMITTER: Pellicciotta N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7165462 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pellicciotta Nicola N Hamilton Evelyn E Kotar Jurij J Faucourt Marion M Delgehyr Nathalie N Spassky Nathalie N Cicuta Pietro P
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200326 15
Motile cilia are widespread across the animal and plant kingdoms, displaying complex collective dynamics central to their physiology. Their coordination mechanism is not generally understood, with previous work mainly focusing on algae and protists. We study here the entrainment of cilia beat in multiciliated cells from brain ventricles. The response to controlled oscillatory external flows shows that flows at a similar frequency to the actively beating cilia can entrain cilia oscillations. We f ...[more]